This report aim to illustrate Olympic Medalist winners throughout the years. This is done by creating different tables, plots and a bar animation.
The rekkefølge of the report is as follows
NB
The used data sets are downloaded from Kaggle and contains medal winners from 1896 - 2014. We were unable to find datasets including the most recent olympics, thus the summer olympics from 2016 is not included.
| Medal | Number |
|---|---|
| Bronze | 10055 |
| Gold | 9929 |
| Silver | 9973 |
| Country | Total number of medals | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Contestants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 5238 | 2402 | 1571 | 1265 | 5238 |
| United Kingdom | 1799 | 580 | 632 | 587 | 1799 |
| Germany | 1665 | 589 | 504 | 572 | 1665 |
| France | 1548 | 444 | 526 | 578 | 1548 |
| Italy | 1488 | 534 | 473 | 481 | 1488 |
| Sweden | 1477 | 476 | 496 | 505 | 1477 |
This plot illustrates all medals combined
From the word cloud, we see that the US is the most winning nation, and that their lead in number of medals won is substantial.
This plot illustrates gold medals
The US has a substantial larger number of gold medals compared to the rest of the countries.
This plot illustrates silver medals
This plot illustrates bronze medals
Compared to gold and silver medals, the distribution of bronze medals is more even among the different countries.
| Event | Country | Medals won | Total number of medals | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basketball | United States | 318 | 746 | 0.426 |
| Ice Hockey | Canada | 359 | 1215 | 0.295 |
| Ice Hockey | United States | 280 | 1215 | 0.230 |
| Hockey | Netherlands | 249 | 1297 | 0.192 |
| Ice Hockey | Sweden | 218 | 1215 | 0.179 |
The table shows which country which has won the most country in a single sport percentage wise compared to the total amount of medals given.
The table shows that the US has won the most medals in a single sport, which is Basketball. In this sport, they account for 42,6% of the medals.
| Country | Sport | Number of Events |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Wrestling | 54 |
| United States | Athletics | 44 |
| United States | Shooting | 41 |
| Norway | Skiing | 40 |
| Sweden | Wrestling | 40 |
| Japan | Judo | 39 |
(Score given in absolute numbers)
The US participates the most in a single sport, which is Wrestling.
Not surprisingly, Norway is the country with the highest participation in skiing
Since the US has won the most medals both overall and in a single sport (percentage wise), and is also the country with the highest participation in a single sport, a deep dive is interesting.
The plot showcases the development of number of medals for the US. There is a somewhat similar pattern for the different types of medals. Gold medals (green line) most often represent the most attained medal type through time.
The plot also illustrate:
| athlete | sport | medals |
|---|---|---|
| PHELPS, Michael | Aquatics | 22 |
| BJOERNDALEN, Ole Einar | Biathlon | 13 |
| MANGIAROTTI, Edoardo | Fencing | 13 |
| ONO, Takashi | Gymnastics | 13 |
| COUGHLIN, Natalie | Aquatics | 12 |
| DAEHLIE, Björn | Skiing | 12 |
| KATO, Sawao | Gymnastics | 12 |
| NEMOV, Alexei | Gymnastics | 12 |
| NURMI, Paavo | Athletics | 12 |
| THOMPSON, Jenny | Aquatics | 12 |
The table shows that Michael Phelps is the most winning athlete, with 22 medals. Both Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Bjørn Dæhlie are among the top winners, with respectively 13 and 12 medals each.
(Anno 2020 Pelphs has a total of 28 olympic medals, still reigning as most winning athlete)
Like other parts of society, the olympic games excluded female participation for quite some time. The following plot will demonstrate the gender’s participation development through time.
From 1900, female participation started rising. However, it would take almost 96 years before the participation of the genders would represent about 50% of the events each.
Top 10 countries